June 27th, Melissa and I awoke, pushed Ian out the bedroom door, and fell back asleep immediately. We went into recovery mode, more or less.
That evening, Connor had a baseball game and Grandma Barb stayed home with Melissa so that Ian and I could go root for “the Bakers.”
Ian is ready to cheer Connor on, and can’t wait to see a live game after watching the same double on the Kunze blog 462 times. See this image larger.
Shortly after this picture was taken, the most hilarious conversation I’ve ever heard occurred in the two seats behind me. “Ian, see water?” “Yes Kaylee, I see water….(pause) Look at trees, Kaylee!” It was like some horribly scripted after school special, but the cutest thing on Earth. See this image larger.
Ian and Grampa watch from the sidelines as anticipation builds! I’m putting together a compilation of the video footage I took during the game, and that will end up on the blog in a few days. See this image larger.
He was pretty happy here watching the game, although I had to stop him from running around a bit. Thanks to Grampa Ray, Aunt Melanie and “Ronnie” for watching him. Ian was also happy about the after-game victory tradition of ice cream! (I understand that if there’s a loss the tradition to help cope mysteriously also involves ice cream.) See this image larger.
That night, hopped up on sugar and bolstered by his own youth, Ian attempts the popular sport of block jumping. Is he going to turn down a double-dog dare? NO WAY! (Love Ian’s body language here… you can see from his toes and his left hand that he’s pretty much bursting at the seems.) See this image larger.
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LATEST NEWS: After our appointment. Our physician was still a little hesitant to give us much of a prognosis for how things should or will go in the future, because she can’t. If you think about it, obviously any baby is a possible miscarriage. She did take Melissa off of bed-rest, give her the ok to go to work, to perform tasks such as lifting Ian, and even said she could go up to Fawn Island. She answered our extensive list of questions with what I will call a positive outlook… using words like “hopefully,” and said she did not consider this a “high risk” pregnancy. I guess what I would say is that our doctor mostly approached this from the standpoint of normalcy. For us, that’s awesome news!
NEWS: Today we go to the doctor and finally get a chance to discuss this pregnancy with our physician at length. We did actually get to talk to her yesterday on the phone, huzzah!
Ian graduated to the “Early Preschool” room today! I’ve got footage and will show it off in a few days!
Alright so back about a week ago, the Ohio trip…
The night we showed up at the Kunze’s, and everybody was out and active and running around! Here Ian stares in awe as Connor shows off his driving technique. See this image larger.
I added this picture after the entry was published, I got the pictures out of order, chronologically: Aunt Dissy helps Kaylee with he swing! See this image larger.
Ian and Kaylee discover home shopping is a toy cart and cash register away. See this image larger.
She’s a couple inches taller than Ian, and with that weighs a little more… Connor is ridiculously tall and a rail, but fit as a fiddle. Here he shows off his muscles! See this image larger.
I love a picture with narrative. If you can’t read this one, I’ll help you. Connor is saying “I don’t like little kids in my room because they cause chaos.” Ian is saying “Chaos, what chaos? WHOA!!!!” See this image larger.
Just to kind of keep you on the timeline… THIS night and on to the next morning we ended up in the ER… again I want to thank everybody for picking up Melissa and I’s slack while we slept in the whole weekend.
Our story continues soon!
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We had a great time in Ohio seeing family, but a really tough week overall.
The short of it is this… we arrived in Ohio after a long trip, and announced that Ian was going to be a big brother. Huge and awesome news. Hours later Melissa developed symptoms of a miscarriage, and we ended up in the ER. We spent many hours waiting and making ourselves sick with grief. At around 4am Melissa faced the ultrasound portion of the morning alone, or so she thought. A seemingly healthy fetus waved from the monitor, and we discovered the fetus was about 3 weeks older than we thought, around 11 weeks old.
The weekend progressed, Melissa was on bed-rest. Grandma Barb, Grampa Ray, Aunt Melanie, Uncle Ben, and Cousins Connor and Kaylee stepped up to the plate and watched, fed and entertained Ian for us while we slept, and we can’t thank them enough for that! Don’t be surprised if I mention that a few more times, we were out of energy and I don’t know what we would have done without their thoughtfulness.
We got back to Michigan, the next day got some bloodwork done, and then waited yet another day for the results. We had a scare when some hormone levels dropped in the results of the bloodwork, (but again long story short,) it turns out that a healthy ultrasound trumps said results. We had a second ultrasound here in Grand Rapids, and we were exhausted, scared, and it was a cold, grey day in July — we tried our best to have faith and were extremely thrilled to find out the baby is fine, and 12-13 weeks in development. This is according to the ultrasound tech, of course, we’ve still not spoken to our physician person-to-person. (No, not even on the phone.) We’re not happy about that. Wednesday is our appointment, I’ll update this then, hopefully our list of questions will be fully answered.
Ok, now that you’ve got some background, I will tell you how the visit with the family went with pictures, next entry!
In the meanwhile, this is the picture we planned to use to joyously announce the coming of our next child… Big brother-to-be… we hope and hope and hope! Thanks for your thoughts, wishes, prayers and help! See this image larger.
June 2009 Ohio Trip, Part II
June 27th, Melissa and I awoke, pushed Ian out the bedroom door, and fell back asleep immediately. We went into recovery mode, more or less.
That evening, Connor had a baseball game and Grandma Barb stayed home with Melissa so that Ian and I could go root for “the Bakers.”
June 2009 Ohio Trip, Part I
LATEST NEWS: After our appointment. Our physician was still a little hesitant to give us much of a prognosis for how things should or will go in the future, because she can’t. If you think about it, obviously any baby is a possible miscarriage. She did take Melissa off of bed-rest, give her the ok to go to work, to perform tasks such as lifting Ian, and even said she could go up to Fawn Island. She answered our extensive list of questions with what I will call a positive outlook… using words like “hopefully,” and said she did not consider this a “high risk” pregnancy. I guess what I would say is that our doctor mostly approached this from the standpoint of normalcy. For us, that’s awesome news!
NEWS: Today we go to the doctor and finally get a chance to discuss this pregnancy with our physician at length. We did actually get to talk to her yesterday on the phone, huzzah!
Ian graduated to the “Early Preschool” room today! I’ve got footage and will show it off in a few days!
Alright so back about a week ago, the Ohio trip…
Just to kind of keep you on the timeline… THIS night and on to the next morning we ended up in the ER… again I want to thank everybody for picking up Melissa and I’s slack while we slept in the whole weekend.
Our story continues soon!
June 2009 Ohio Trip, Prologue
We had a great time in Ohio seeing family, but a really tough week overall.
The short of it is this… we arrived in Ohio after a long trip, and announced that Ian was going to be a big brother. Huge and awesome news. Hours later Melissa developed symptoms of a miscarriage, and we ended up in the ER. We spent many hours waiting and making ourselves sick with grief. At around 4am Melissa faced the ultrasound portion of the morning alone, or so she thought. A seemingly healthy fetus waved from the monitor, and we discovered the fetus was about 3 weeks older than we thought, around 11 weeks old.
The weekend progressed, Melissa was on bed-rest. Grandma Barb, Grampa Ray, Aunt Melanie, Uncle Ben, and Cousins Connor and Kaylee stepped up to the plate and watched, fed and entertained Ian for us while we slept, and we can’t thank them enough for that! Don’t be surprised if I mention that a few more times, we were out of energy and I don’t know what we would have done without their thoughtfulness.
We got back to Michigan, the next day got some bloodwork done, and then waited yet another day for the results. We had a scare when some hormone levels dropped in the results of the bloodwork, (but again long story short,) it turns out that a healthy ultrasound trumps said results. We had a second ultrasound here in Grand Rapids, and we were exhausted, scared, and it was a cold, grey day in July — we tried our best to have faith and were extremely thrilled to find out the baby is fine, and 12-13 weeks in development. This is according to the ultrasound tech, of course, we’ve still not spoken to our physician person-to-person. (No, not even on the phone.) We’re not happy about that. Wednesday is our appointment, I’ll update this then, hopefully our list of questions will be fully answered.
Ok, now that you’ve got some background, I will tell you how the visit with the family went with pictures, next entry!
In the meanwhile, this is the picture we planned to use to joyously announce the coming of our next child…
Big brother-to-be… we hope and hope and hope! Thanks for your thoughts, wishes, prayers and help! See this image larger.